AfHEA’s History

AfHEA was formally launched in March 2009 following a series of consultative processes, meetings and partnerships and through a legacy of volunteerism and sacrifices

AfHEA’s Mission and Objectives

Our mission in simple terms is to improve health outcomes for Africans through the use of health economics and policy analysis

AfHEA’s Results

AfHEA Offers technical expertise on Critical Health Economics, Financing & Policy Topics

State of Africa’s Health System Report

Read our reports on Access, Equity, Health Insurance, Quality, Policy and Initiatives on UHC and beyond!

AfHEA Annual Report

Our Annual Report highlights the results we have achieved towards UHC 2030 year on year and reports given the efficient use of our finances

Audited Annual Financial Reports

AfHEA's audited annual financial reports from 2014 to 2021
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For over a decade, AfHEA has worked to support the improvement of health outcomes in Africa, especially for the poor and vulnerable. AfHEA has achieved this in addition to promoting capacity building for its members, despite the myriad of challenges plaguing the continent of Africa in terms of resources.

The African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) is a bilingual (English and French) non-political and non profit-making association inaugurated in March 2009 with headquarters in Accra, Ghana. The overall mission of AfHEA is to contribute to the promotion and strengthening of the use of health economics and health policy analysis in achieving equitable and efficient health systems and improved health outcomes in Africa, especially for the most vulnerable populations.

Its membership includes over 350 individual members comprising health economics, financing and policy experts from African countries residing within and outside the continent and 7 institutional members.

Mission

To contribute to the promotion and strengthening of the use of health economics and health policy analysis in achieving equitable and efficient health systems and improved health outcomes in Africa, especially for the most vulnerable populations

Vision

Better and equitable health for Africans through better policies and efficient use of resources

Our Core Values

AfHEA is driven by a number of core values – AfHEA as a health economics, financing and policy organization recognizes the importance of efficient use of resources and therefore takes a serious approach to building on the principles of efficiency, accountability and trust.

Lower Income Countries

To support the development and retention of health economics capacity in Africa especially for lower income countries

Supporting Policy - makers

To promote the use of health economics tools to support policy-makers in their decision-making process

Information and Ideas exchange

To provide a platform for researchers and policymakers to exchange information and ideas